Coachella Valley Rescue Mission

Programs: The mission provides temporary food and shelter for the homeless as well as job training and assistance finding permanent housing and employment. Clients who live at the mission receive food and shelter and also participate in job training. The public also receives food in our public breakfast/dinner facility. Food boxes are also available. In 2017, the mission served 249,000 meals for hungry and hurting men, women and children. Women and children account for 23% of this total - the fastest growing segment of services. Over 18,000 food boxes were distributed throughout the year which served over 53,000 adults and 10,800 children in families who had to make the choice between food and rent. Over 76,000 bed-nights were provided. The mission was blessed with over 27,000 hours of volunteer help from the community who helped meet these immense needs. In may 2015, the mission opened a 75 bed annex building located immediately behind the main buildings to allow better service for men, women, and children coming for emergency shelter. This building allows day services and cooling center services along with additional case management to help clients move into programs for improvement of their life situations. With the 2017 grants for housing, the mission has assisted 49 people within 38 households into their own independent homes through case management for budgeting, preparing for their new home and follow up after placement, and the provision of rental deposits and first few month's rent. The mission also makes frequent outreach trips to homeless camps. In 2017, 48 outreach trips were made where we distributed 6,480 items of hygiene, food, water and encouraged 720 people to come to the mission for program services.